Samantha Lindquist
Professor Fogleman
EDC 102H
Ravitch Reflection
Chapter Two: The Context of Corporate Reform
My favorite chapter in the book Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch was the second chapter, The Context for Corporate Reform. I liked this chapter because it allowed me to learn all about what has been going on with corporate reform in our society. It also allowed me to learn about and understand the new ideas that now surround the idea of Corporate Reform. This chapter helps you understand how the ideas that have stemmed from Corporate Reform have grown over the years especially in the Clinton administration and under George W. H. Bush with the No Child Left Behind policy in the early 2000s. The chapter also lets you know exactly what types of Corporate Reform were thought of first with the Clinton administration, they wanted national standards and national testing to understand the schooling in the United States. While during the second Bush administration the idea of No Child Left Behind came into play and that had testing for all children in the grades 3 to 8 every year to see the progress each year. The idea with No Child Left Behind was that it found the schools that weren’t doing what they should to help their students and got rid of them. To me this is seeing things change by the ideas of Corporate Reform and really understanding exactly what they are doing. These were things that I had never known because it was not really wide spread knowledge, also that I was a lot younger when No Child Left Behind was really working for the betterment of schools.
Professor Fogleman
EDC 102H
Ravitch Reflection
Chapter Two: The Context of Corporate Reform
My favorite chapter in the book Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch was the second chapter, The Context for Corporate Reform. I liked this chapter because it allowed me to learn all about what has been going on with corporate reform in our society. It also allowed me to learn about and understand the new ideas that now surround the idea of Corporate Reform. This chapter helps you understand how the ideas that have stemmed from Corporate Reform have grown over the years especially in the Clinton administration and under George W. H. Bush with the No Child Left Behind policy in the early 2000s. The chapter also lets you know exactly what types of Corporate Reform were thought of first with the Clinton administration, they wanted national standards and national testing to understand the schooling in the United States. While during the second Bush administration the idea of No Child Left Behind came into play and that had testing for all children in the grades 3 to 8 every year to see the progress each year. The idea with No Child Left Behind was that it found the schools that weren’t doing what they should to help their students and got rid of them. To me this is seeing things change by the ideas of Corporate Reform and really understanding exactly what they are doing. These were things that I had never known because it was not really wide spread knowledge, also that I was a lot younger when No Child Left Behind was really working for the betterment of schools.